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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Eating Extreme Thai Food!

Sunday morning.... my intense Thai language immersion as Mr. Elvis and his wife began trying to teach me the five tones of Thai as well as a whole bunch of new vocabulary! By lunch time I was hungry... really starved since I'd eaten almost nothing for breakfast

The appetizer,consisting of two plates of food were brought out and placed on the table. Thankfully... Mr. Elvis told me what was in each container.

The plate.... boiled cow kidney, cow stomach and cow small intestines, all nicely sliced into small bite sized pieces...

In the bowl...? This blew me out of the water and took me so far out of my comfort zone ..... freshly cooked green cow excrement! Yes... you read that correctly .... cow excrement, also known as...... cow poop! It was green, it was runny, it had chucks of stuff in it, it had long pieces of grass in it....

It was... cow poop. Cooked cow poop extracted from the colon of a newly slaughtered cow.

Could you .......

Would you........ eat it?

Have to tell you..... I indeed did try it and would you believe..... it tasted just like chicken!